语音、语法和词汇是构成语言的三大要素,其中词汇是语言最主要和最基本的单位,没有词汇就没有语言。多年来,由于受结构主义理论的影响,外语教学过分强调语言结构在外语教学中的作用,从而忽视了词汇教学的重要性。教师在讲解课文时往往侧重从篇章结构方面帮助学生加强对整体文章的理解,而对词汇的讲解却往往不给予太多的重视。英国 Phonetics, grammar and vocabulary constitute the three major elements of language, of which vocabulary is the most important and basic unit of language, and there is no language without vocabulary. Over the years, due to the influence of structuralism theory, foreign language teaching overemphasizes the role of language structure in foreign language teaching, thus ignoring the importance of vocabulary teaching. Teachers tend to focus on explaining the text from the discourse structure to help students to strengthen the understanding of the overall article, but to explain the vocabulary are often not given too much attention. United Kingdom